This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201910955505.6, titled “COMPLICATED RESIDUAL CURRENT DETECTION METHOD BASED ON MAGNETIC CORE WORKING STATE SWITCHING”, filed on Oct. 9, 2019 with the China National Intellectual Property Administration, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The present disclosure belongs to the field of leakage detection, and mainly relates to a method for detecting a residual current based on switching of working states of a magnetic core.
With the development of economy, the power industry develops rapidly, types of various household appliances are increasing rich. Therefore, how to ensure electricity safety of household becomes particularly important. It is desirable to detect a variety of complex wave signals, including an alternating current, a direct current, a high-frequency signal, or the like. An alternating current residual current is extremely dangerous to the person, ventricular tremor may be caused at 50 mA/s. With the increase in the type of household appliances, it is also important to detect a direct current residual current. At present, the direct current is widely used, including direct current charging pile, variable frequency motor, etc., household appliance, such as certain types of notebook, microwave oven, washing machine. Therefore, there is an urgent need for high-precision detection of the alternating current residual current, the direct current residual current and a complex waveform.
Currently, there are products for residual current detection of type B and higher specification on the market, and electromagnetic current transformer, Hall current sensor and magnetic modulation current transformer, etc. are mostly used for residual current detection in which there are disadvantages, such as low detection precision and inability to cover all residual current waveforms. Therefore, it is desirable to develop a method that can effectively solve the above two problems.
In the present disclosure, for the above problems and in order to overcome the disadvantages of the conventional technology, a method for detecting a residual current based on switching of working states of a magnetic core is provided, in which the magnetic core is made of ferrite, and by the means of combining a voltage excitation mode with a pure induction mode, data is processed in a full electronic manner, which effectively solves the two problems, that is, all types of residual current are covered and a high-precision determination is achieved.
The present disclosure relates to a technology of detecting a complex residual current by using different responses of the magnetic core to the alternating current residual current and the direct current residual current in different regions of a magnetization curve and switching the working state. A leakage test is performed by detecting the residual current in the line, and the values of different types of residual currents are calculated through secondary algorithm analysis and the residual currents are determined by software, so as to achieve the protection against leakage.
In the present disclosure, a residual current transformer of two-phase coil is used as a detection device. As shown in
By using the linear region of the hysteresis loop of ferrite, when there is an alternating signal, the corresponding signal may be sensed by a secondary side, and the amplitude is inversely proportional to the number of coil turns. Since the linear region of ferrite is relatively wide, it has better characteristics of measuring the alternating current residual current. For 50 Hz power frequency signal, due to the low frequency, the amplitude of the sensing signal may become smaller, but the difference can be compensated by software compensation. Other high-frequency signals can be sensed in the linear region, and the effect of sensing is only related to the material characteristics, and the ferrite parameters can be customized to meet the performance requirements of high-frequency alternating current detection.
Using the characteristics of the hysteresis loop of ferrite, the direct current signal is not sensitive to the linear region, and the same principle is used in the saturation region, but there is a sensing value for direct current in the nonlinear region. The detection of the direct current residual current can be completed by the means of value change in the nonlinear region. A saturation excitation square wave has to be a bipolar square wave, and the chip can only output a unipolar square wave. In order to realize the bipolar square wave excitation to the magnetic core and ensure that the magnetic core can enter the saturation region bidirectionally, the unipolar square wave may be converted into the bipolar square wave through an H-bridge. When the magnetic core enters saturation at half wave, a reverse square wave excitation is applied immediately, that is, the reverse magnetic field of the same size is generated, and at this time, the winding changes from a magnetic saturation region on one side to a magnetic saturation region on the other side. Different direct current leakage values make the time to reach the number of ampere turns of saturation different and the corresponding currents different. The difference of different direct current residual currents can be extracted from the sampling of the sampling resistor, and the corresponding direct current leakage value is obtained by means of algorithm analysis.
The technology of performing complex residual current detection by using the three-state switching of different magnetic core working states proposed in the present disclosure is described below in combination with
In the present disclosure, a ferrite residual current transformer is used as the detection device to complete the detection of a complex residual current through three-state switching control. As shown in
In case of detecting an alternating current, the magnetic core works in the linear region.
According to the ampere circuital theorem, the magnetic field strength H is:
when the magnetic core works in the linear region, the permeability u is almost constant, the magnetic induction intensity B is:
and the induced electromotive force E is:
From the above formulas, it may be inferred that when the magnetic core works in the linear region, the signal is sensitive to an alternating current signal and not sensitive to a direct current signal, so it is considered that the sensing signal is an alternating current signal.
When the signal passes through a nonlinear region, the permeability is changing, and when the excitation amplitude changes with time, the permeability may be regarded as a time-varying parameter μ(t). At this time, the sensing signal of the coil may be expressed as:
From the above formula, it may be analyzed that since the permeability μ(t) is changing when the magnetic core works in the nonlinear region, in the nonlinear region, a signal can be sensed from the direct current. Using the change in the nonlinear region, the direct current signal can be detected and determined by means of algorithm extraction and analysis.
When the excitation signal makes the magnetic core work in the saturation region, the excitation signal enters the deep saturation. At this time, the signal can completely reflect all the characteristics of the hysteresis loop. When the signal enters a deep saturation region, there is no sensing signal since the permeability is approximately equal to 0, but due to the existence of the excitation square wave, the inductor in the circuit has no impeding effect at this time, which is equivalent to a small resistance voltage divider. Therefore, the signal collected by the sampling resistor has a constant voltage value approximate to the amplitude of the excitation square wave.
If the alternating current residual current is large enough and the pure induction mode is used to make the magnetic core work into the saturation region, the alternating current signal may cover all regions of the hysteresis loop, and the sensing waveforms of signals in different regions may have different responses. In the linear region, the alternating current signal may be still sensed. In the nonlinear region, the signal may be superimposed with even harmonics, and in the deep saturation region, there is no sensing signal, and the signal may decay.
In case of detecting a direct current, positive and negative saturation excitation signals are output by the state control module, and the frequency of the square wave signal is adjustable. The charging time required to reach saturation is calculated according to the number of ampere turns of saturation. The period of the square wave signal is controlled to be greater than or equal to the sum of the bidirectional charging time, and the signal can reach the bidirectional deep saturation region of the magnetic core within the period. As shown in the simplified model of the magnetization curve in
Using two states of excitation square wave, not only the direct current residual current may be detected, but also the alternating current residual current of partial frequency may be processed by algorithm analysis. Due to the high frequency of the injected square wave, even for alternating current signal, it can also be considered that the leakage current remains unchanged in one excitation half wave time, and according to the different responses generated by the hysteresis loop to different direct current, different leakage signal values are superimposed on the excitation square wave of a detection winding. The induction principle is the same as the direct current residual current detection principle. The signal is collected by the sampling resistor, the reproduction of the complex waveform may be completed through feature extraction, and the excitation square wave is a modulated signal relative to the signal to be detected. According to the sampling theorem, it that can be analyzed that the maximum frequency of the sensing signal is 1/5 of the excitation square wave frequency.
The induction current of the detection winding first passes through a PGA amplification circuit through the sampling resistor, then read by an ADC sampling module and inputted into an algorithm DSP unit for analysis.
Step 1: an internal circuit of the chip is controlled to make the coil and the resistor form a pure sensing measurement alternating current mode, at this time, the excitation voltage is 0, the duration is set to t2ms, the coil and the resistor are approximately directly connected. After passing through an operational amplifier circuit, the data is sampled by the ADC, and the sampled data is sent to a hardware algorithm DSP module for calculation and analysis through an algorithm, and then determined.
Step 2: the internal circuit of the chip is controlled, when the alternating current residual current detection is completed, to switch the working state and output the two states of positive and negative voltage, which are generated alternately and are approximately the positive and negative polarity of square wave excitation signals. At this time, the coil and the sampling resistor are superimposed with the excitation square wave, which makes the magnetic core work back and forth in the positive and negative saturation regions for t1ms of excitation duration. After passing through the operational amplifier circuit, the data is sampled by the ADC and the sampled data is sent to the hardware algorithm DSP module for calculation and analysis through the algorithm, and then determined.
Step 3: in the algorithm DSP module, there is a special switching control algorithm to prevent the detection time from being unable to meet the action requirements of the national standard due to the sudden large current. When the complex residual current detection is carried out in a certain state, if the sudden large current is found, an algorithm control module generates an interruption, and according to the specific sampled signal at this time, the type of sudden signal (large direct current, large alternating current, etc.) is analyzed. Combined with the detection state of working in alternating current/direct current at this time, the detection state is controlled to maintain t2/t1ms, or to immediately switch to the direct current/alternating current detection state, and the state is controlled to maintain t2/t1ms. After passing through the operational amplifier circuit, the data is sampled by the ADC and the sampled data is sent to the hardware algorithm DSP module for calculation and analysis through the algorithm, and then determined.
The description above is only the preferred embodiment of the disclosure. For those skilled in the art, several improvements and changes can be made without departing from the principle of the present disclosure. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present disclosure shall be included in the protection of the present disclosure.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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201910955505.6 | Oct 2019 | CN | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/CN2020/119323 | 9/30/2020 | WO |